"The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the fine arts."
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"Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen."
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"In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared."
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"How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!"
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"God has commanded Time to console the afflicted."
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"The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments."
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"Slander is the solace of malignity."
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"Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation."
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"Innocence is always unsuspicious."
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"Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy"
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"Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?"
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"Good maxims are the germs of all excellence."
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"Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself."
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"Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone."
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"Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it."
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"He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes, et n'a pas de pieds.]"
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"Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus."
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"Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty."
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"The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason."
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"Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench."
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